Current Discussions on Foreign/Second Language Education – Mehmet Bardakçı,Akın Gürbüz,Arda Arıkan,Burcu Şentürk – Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık

Millions of research articles and books are published every year. In this respect, researchers in any academic field face a significant problem. Today, it is more challenging than ever to catch up with new scientific development, even in a speci-fic field of study. The context of teaching English is no exception to this global trend. When we look at the history of language teaching and learning, we can see designer methods coupled with commercial concerns. New and fancy names are given to old and forgotten methods or techniques, and they are pushed into the markets for mass consumption. Obviously, this is a problem not just for researc-hers in the field but also for language teaching practitioners. At this point, some caution is required. Language teaching researchers and practitioners need to agree on what kind of research and related outcomes are more valuable, practical, and applicable. This book is intended to trigger discussions to overcome this issue to certain extents. The prima...